Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:

—Our problem with overconsumption of media in 2020,

—Why the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates might have his head too buried in an iPhone to invent the next - well - iPhone,

—Why companies are spending more on innovation but getting fewer returns on their investments,

—Why patents are inadequate incentives for innovation, and finally...

—The most overrated films of our lifetime.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:

—Why, contrary to what your friends may say, it is actually scientifically impossible to remember events from our infancy,

—Why your mind recalls specific experiences from throughout your life “randomly” over the course of your day,

—Why once you have learned something a certain way, it becomes almost impossible to unlearn it,

—Why it is not true that we only use ten percent of our brain capacity,

—How your constant reliance on Google is eroding your brain’s ability to retrieve old memories before the neuronal pathways decay,

—Why it is impossible to retrieve the same exact memory twice, and finally,

—Why we have a tendency to remember the past more positively than how it actually happened.

Where to Go to Get More Information:

1. Are You Smart Enough to Work At Google? By William Poundstone

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:

—Why it’s far more difficult to prove that you’re sane rather than insane…

—Just how effective psychiatrists are at identifying people with psychosis…

—The problem of subjectivity in sanity…

—Why the epidemic of gun-related deaths is an exclusively American problem…

—How all of us have become numb to the gun violence in our country, and finally…

—What we can do to curb gun violence in America. 

Segments:

Sanity vs. Insanity: 7:10

Gun Violence in America: 27:46

Where to Go to Get More Information:

1. The Rosenhan Experiments in Psychiatry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

2. The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychopath-test-ted-talk_b_2973423

3. Ernest Hemingway Biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

4. Howard Hughes Biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes

5. Howard Hughes Psychosis

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug05/hughes

6. Timeline of Mass Shootings in America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

7. Gun Violence Statistics

https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-shooting-gun-statistics-2018-2

https://www.bradyunited.org/issue/types-of-gun-violence

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

8. Map of Mass Shootings in America

https://qz.com/1681082/the-292-mass-shootings-in-the-us-so-far-this-year-mapped/

9. Gun Laws in the United States (State-By-State Comparison and Scorecard)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state

https://lawcenter.giffords.org/scorecard/

10. Universal Background Checks

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/04/mass-shootings-what-congress-doing-gun-control/1916451001/

11. H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8

12. H.R.1112 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1112/text

13. Assault Weapons Ban

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

14. S.66 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/66

15. Trump Administration Bans Bump Stocks in December 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/trump-bump-stocks-ban.html

16. The Role of Mental Health in Mass Shootings

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mental-illness-and-mass-murder-11564955203

17. Red Flag Laws

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/01/red-flag-laws-temporarily-take-away-guns/3521491002/

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:

—The logical probability that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation…

—Why, if we were living inside a simulation, we would remain blissfully unaware of this fact…

—Whether the simulation would be an “ancestor simulation” being run by future human civilizations or a simulation being run by alien life forms from the other side of the universe…

—Why it would be far easier to prove that we ARE living inside a simulation than that we are NOT living inside one, and finally…

—How we should live our lives if we are, in fact, living in a simulation.

Where To Go To Get More Information:

1. Zhuangzi, “The Butterfly Dream” (Ancient Chinese Text)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1399947?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

2. “The Matrix” (1999)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

3. “Brain In A Vat” Hypothesis

http://www.philosophy-index.com/putnam/brain-vat/

4. “The Allegory of the Cave”, Featured in The Republic, by Plato

5. The Simulation Hypothesis (and Nick Hostrum’s Reasoning), Explained

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

6. Moore’s Law (Computing Power)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

7. Elon Musk on the Simulation Hypothesis

https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-rogan-podcast.html

8. Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience (September 6, 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and mechanical engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including:

--The jobs that automation will displace that humans currently have, and the jobs that will be created by the new technology…

--Why some jobs can never be able to be effectively carried out by robots…

--How the sex robot industry is shaking up the automation field…

--How the increasing amount of federal financial aid that is allotted to students has actually made college more expensive…

--Why a comprehensive student loan forgiveness plan would be an inadequate solution to a worsening problem, and finally…

--Why cryptocurrency has the potential to spread like wildfire in the coming decades.

Segments:

3:50 - Automation and the Future of the 9-5 Job

31:20 - The Cost of College

59:45 - Cryptocurrency

Where To Go To Get More Information:

1. The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris

2. Wall-E (2008)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

3. People Protesting Self-Check-Out Lines

https://futurism.com/people-refusing-self-checkout-kill-jobs

4. Live Video Streams of People Eating Meals in Korea

https://www.today.com/food/what-mukbang-inside-viral-korean-food-phenomenon-t123251

5. Her (2013)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

6. Ex Machina (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

7. Westworld (2016 - Present)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/

8. Sex Robots Blamed for Birth Rate Crisis in Japan

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8286324/sex-robots-birth-rate-japan/

9. Why College Is So Expensive In America

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-college-so-expensive-2018-4

10. Cost of College Over Time

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/18/cost-of-college-the-year-you-were-born/39479153/

11. Private College Tuitions, 2019

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

12. Middle Income Student Assistant Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/11274

13. The Bennett Hypothesis

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/18/opinion/our-greedy-colleges.html

14. Student Loan Debt Statistics

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-loan-statistics-2019-n997836

15. Senator Bernie Sanders’ Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-2020-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-plan-1296863

16. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/06/17/elizabeth-warren-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/#62b763195e7b

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-student-debt.html

17. Cryptocurrency

https://www.cnbc.com/cryptocurrency/

18. Coinbase

https://www.coinbase.com/

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen address a number of topics in the field of personality psychology including:

—Why most of us fall somewhere on the spectrum of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

—The five components that are universally believed to form the building blocks of our personality…

—Whether our environment or genetics plays a more significant role in the development of our personality…

—How the Myers-Briggs Test treats personality as static …

—Why your Enneagram type might be different every time you take the test, and finally…

—How to know if you have a clinical personality disorder or if you’re just really paranoid.

Where To Go To Get More Information:

1. APA Definition of Personality

https://www.apa.org/topics/personality/

2. The Big Five Personality Dimensions (“OCEAN”)

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422

3. Nature vs. Nurture Debate in Personality Psychology

https://www.workstyle.io/how-personality-develops

4. Rorschach Ink Test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test

5. The Myers Briggs Personality Test

https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/home.htm?bhcp=1

6. The Enneagram Test and Enneagram Types

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality

https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

7. The Happiness U-Curve

https://bigthink.com/videos/the-u-curve-of-happiness-why-old-age-is-a-time-of-psychological-bliss

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/05/happiness-curve-life-gets-better-after-50-jonathan-rauch

8. Personality Disorders

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/the-10-personality-disorders

9. Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad -- and Surprising Good -- About Feeling Special, by Dr. Craig Malkin